De Blasio, Family Will Spend First Night in Gracie Mansion

Visitors wait on line outside Gracie Mansion, the official residence of the mayor, as newly elected Mayor Bill de Blasio, not pictured, holds an open house in January.

Associated Press

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio and his family will spend their first night at Gracie Mansion when they return from their Italian vacation Sunday afternoon, an aide said.

The family’s inaugural night at Gracie Mansion, the official residence of the New York City mayor, will mark the first time the home has been occupied in more than 12 years. Former Mayor Michael Bloomberg did not live in the home, which sits along the East River on the Upper East Side.

Mr. de Blasio has said since December that he would move into the mansion, but the drawn-out move from the family’s Park Slope home did not begin until last month. Mr. de Blasio’s wife, Chirlane McCray, called moving, “bittersweet, even when excited about the destination.”

“We’ve lived in our Park Slope home for 14 wonderful years,” Ms. McCray wrote on her official blog, in June.

Mr. de Blasio and Ms. McCray’s son, Dante de Blasio, 16, will live with his parents at Gracie Mansion. The couple’s daughter, Chiara de Blasio, 19, is a college student in California.

The announcement of the long-anticipated move comes on the final day of Mr. de Blasio’s eight-day vacation to Italy, where the mayor and his family, as well as news reporters, visited the ancestral villages of his grandparents.